Psalms 40:2

God lifted David from a pit of miry clay and set his feet on solid rock. The Lord rescues from helpless ruin and gives sure footing.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 37:23A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
• Ps 119:133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
• Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
• Ps 61:2From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
• Matt 7:24–25“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
• Ps 71:20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
• Jonah 2:5–6The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
• Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
• Ps 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
• Ps 69:14–15Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
• Zech 9:11As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
• Ps 18:36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
• Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
• Jer 38:6–12Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
• Ps 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
• Ps 142:6–7Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
• Ps 18:16–17He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
• Ps 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
• Ps 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
• Lam 3:53–55They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
• Acts 2:27–31because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
• Matt 13:50and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
• Isa 24:22They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.

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